ArticleThe Journal of experimental biology2011
Seasonal plasticity of auditory hair cell frequency sensitivity correlates with plasma steroid levels in vocal fish.
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- Reproductive-state dependent changes in inner ear gene expression in female plainfin midshipman fish.PloS one · 2026Article
- Reproductive state-dependent cell turnover in the inner ear of the plainfin midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus).The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Variation in behavioral preference and calcium binding expression in twoFrontiers in neuroanatomy · 2025Article
- Functional plasticity of the swim bladder as an acoustic organ for communication in a vocal fish.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- The effect of biological and anthropogenic sound on the auditory sensitivity of oyster toadfish, Opsanus tau.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2020Article
- Reproductive-state dependent changes in saccular hair cell density of the vocal male plainfin midshipman fish.Hearing research · 2019Article
- Lagenar potentials of the vocal plainfin midshipman fish, Porichthys notatus.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2019Article
- Brain Activation Patterns in Response to Conspecific and Heterospecific Social Acoustic Signals in Female Plainfin Midshipman Fish, Porichthys notatus.Brain, behavior and evolution · 2018Article
- Seasonal plasticity of auditory saccular sensitivity in "sneaker" type II male plainfin midshipman fish, Porichthys notatus.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2017Article
- Progesterone and prostaglandin F2α induce species-typical female preferences for male sexual displays in Cope's gray treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis).Physiology & behavior · 2015Article
- Gene expression underlying enhanced, steroid-dependent auditory sensitivity of hair cell epithelium in a vocal fish.BMC genomics · 2015Article
- Hearing conspecific vocal signals alters peripheral auditory sensitivity.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
- Neuroendocrine control of seasonal plasticity in the auditory and vocal systems of fish.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2015Review
- Seasonal plasticity of precise spike timing in the avian auditory system.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2015Article
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- Catecholaminergic connectivity to the inner ear, central auditory, and vocal motor circuitry in the plainfin midshipman fish porichthys notatus.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2014Article
- Manipulation of BK channel expression is sufficient to alter auditory hair cell thresholds in larval zebrafish.The Journal of experimental biology · 2014Article
- Estrogenic modulation of auditory processing: a vertebrate comparison.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2013Review
- Localization and divergent profiles of estrogen receptors and aromatase in the vocal and auditory networks of a fish with alternative mating tactics.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2013Article
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Abstract
Vertebrates displaying seasonal shifts in reproductive behavior provide the opportunity to investigate bidirectional plasticity in sensory function. The midshipman teleost fish exhibits steroid-dependent plasticity in frequency encoding by eighth nerve auditory afferents. In this study, evoked potentials were recorded in vivo from the saccule, the main auditory division of the inner ear of most teleosts, to test the hypothesis that males and females exhibit seasonal changes in hair cell physiology in relation to seasonal changes in plasma levels of steroids. Thresholds across the predominant frequency range of natural vocalizations were significantly less in both sexes in reproductive compared with non-reproductive conditions, with differences greatest at frequencies corresponding to call upper harmonics. A subset of non-reproductive males exhibiting an intermediate saccular phenotype had elevated testosterone levels, supporting the hypothesis that rising steroid levels induce non-reproductive to reproductive transitions in saccular physiology. We propose that elevated levels of steroids act via long-term (days to weeks) signaling pathways to upregulate ion channel expression generating higher resonant frequencies characteristic of non-mammalian auditory hair cells, thereby lowering acoustic thresholds.
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